[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 48, Volume 5]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 48CFR719.271-2]



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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM

 

             CHAPTER 7--AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

PART 719_SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS--Table of Contents

 

                         Subpart 719.2_Policies

 

Sec. 719.271-2  The USAID Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization 

(SDB).



    (a) SDB is responsible for administering, implementing, and 

coordinating the Agency's small business (including minority business 

enterprises) program.

    (b) SDB, headed by the Director SDB, who also serves as the Minority 

Business Procurement Manager, shall be specifically responsible for:

    (1) Developing policies, plans, and procedures for a coordinated 

Agency-wide small business and minority business enterprise procurement 

program;

    (2) Advising and consulting regularly with USAID/Washington 

procuring activities on all phases of their small business program, 

including, where practicable and desirable, the establishment of small 

business and minority business enterprise award goals;

    (3) Collaborating with officials of the Small Business 

Administration (SBA), other Government Agencies, and private 

organizations on matters affecting the Agency's small business program;

    (4) Developing and maintaining an USAID Consultant Registry 

Information System (ACRIS) of bidders/offerors (annotated to identify 

small business and minority business enterprise firms) capable of 

furnishing services for use by the USAID contracting activities;

    (5) Cooperating with contracting officers in administering the 

performance of contractors subject to the Small Business and Minority 

Business Enterprises Subcontracting Program clauses;

    (6) Developing a plan of operation designed to increase the share of 

contracts awarded to small business concerns, including small minority 

business enterprises;

    (7) Establishing small business class set-aside for types and 

classes of items of services where appropriate;

    (8) Reviewing each procurement requisition to make certain 

individual or class set-asides are initiated on all suitable USAID/

Washington proposed contract actions in excess of the simplified 

acquisition threshold which are subject to screening (see 719.271-6);

    (9) Maintaining a program designed to:

    (i) Locate capable small business sources for current and future 

procurements through GSA and other methods;

    (ii) Utilize every source available to determine if an item is 

obtainable from small business; and



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    (iii) Develop adequate small business competition on all appropriate 

procurements;

    (10) Taking action to assure that unnecessary qualifications, 

restrictive specifications, or other features (such as inadequate 

procurement lead time) of the programming or procurement process, which 

may prevent small business participation in the competitive process, are 

modified to permit such participation where an adequate product or 

service can be obtained;

    (11) Recommending that portions of large planned procurements or 

suitable components of end items or services be purchased separately so 

small firms may compete;

    (12) On proposed non-competitive procurements, recommending to the 

contracting officer that the procurement be made competitive when, in 

the opinion of SDB, there are small business or minority business 

enterprises believed competent to furnish the required goods or 

services, and supplying the contracting officer a list of such firms;

    (13) Assisting small business concerns with individual problems;

    (14) Promoting increased awareness by the technical staff of the 

availability of small business firms;

    (15) Making available to GSA copies of solicitations when so 

requested;

    (16) Counseling non-responsive or non-responsible small business 

bidders/offerors to help them participate more effectively in future 

solicitations; and

    (17) Examining bidders lists to make certain small business firms 

are appropriately identified and adequately represented for both 

negotiated and advertised procurements.



[49 FR 13243, Apr. 3, 1984, as amended at 52 FR 21058, June 4, 1987; 61 

FR 39092, July 26, 1996; 62 FR 40468, July 29, 1997]